Overview
- Judge Simone Gastesi Chevrand rejected Vasco’s reconsideration request on Wednesday and appointed lawyer Athos de Andrade Figueira Neves as the new interventor while president Pedro Paulo “Pedrinho” remains removed from SAF duties.
- The court defined the intervention as temporary and limited to administrative matters such as governance, accounting and information flow and said it does not directly block the club’s sporting operations.
- The decision says there is no legal bar to selling SAF shares but requires transparency and any necessary consents, a position contested by investors and by 777 Carioca which told the court a sale without its involvement would be null.
- Vasco and investor Marcos Lamacchia have an agravo de instrumento pending in the second instance seeking to suspend the intervention, and the club continues to press appeals while negotiations over a reported controlling stake remain unsettled.
- The case has produced resignations, the withdrawal of multiple law firms and safety concerns after an earlier interventor cited threats, raising risks to contract talks, transfer-window moves and the broader recovery timetable.